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A San Francisco library is turning off Wi-Fi at night to keep people without housing from using it (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by withersailor@aussie.zone to c/news@beehaw.org

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[–] Catch42@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem unhoused people face is not nighttime library access it's housing. We all know that the reason they're shutting their wifi off at night is because while for some homeless people this wifi is a lifeline, for some others it's where they get their porn or where they hang out to do drugs and browse the internet. But the fundamental problem remains the same, because they have no where to go home to, whether someone is fapping or connecting with helpful resources, it's all done in public.

[–] gormster@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you think turning off the wifi is going to stop people from masturbating…

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I kind of took it the other way. If they think because I have a roof over my head I'm not watching porn and doing drugs, they would be very mistaken.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

That's exactly how I meant it! Lots of people watch porn and do drugs, it's not a problem to watch porn in your own house. That's why I'm saying the problem is housing. The solution isn't allow people to watch porn and do drugs in public, it's housing so they can do it in private like normal people.